SciPy Windows install: f.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform

Question

I installed Python 3.6 on my Windows 64 bit machine (I already had Python 2.7 installed on it) I tried to pip3 install seaborn but scipy is a dependecy. I thought I had it installed but apparently I do not.

I downloaded the corresponding wheel file from here: scipy‑0.19.1‑cp36‑cp36m‑win_amd64.whl. But when running pip3 installscipy‑0.19.1‑cp36‑cp36m‑win_amd64.whl` I am getting the error:

scipy‑0.19.1‑cp36‑cp36m‑win_amd64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform

This problem has happened to many other people, but none of the solutions I've read had helped me:

• I made sure I am trying to install the correct version: Python 3.6 and 64-bit. Actually I downloaded and installed the wheel file for seaborn successfully, but that's not good enough because I still need scipy.
• I have tried upgrading pip with pip3 install --upgrade pip but the most recent version was already installed.

What can I do other than installing Anaconda and having to set up again my Python 3 environment again? (and I wouldn't even be positive that this will work with Anaconda)

Answer 1

(whereis pip3) C:\Users\xxxxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Scr‌​ipts\pip3.exe

Either you renamed your folder (low probability), or your install is Python 3.6 in it's 32-bit version!

You are trying to install a 64-bit version (scipy‑0.19.1‑cp36‑cp36m‑win_amd64.whl), therefore is not a supported wheel on this platform.